The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

You would not like me if you knew me.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.